• Ad Access, Duke University This site presents images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in US and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955 concentrating on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II.
• African American Odyssey The exhibition, The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress.
• American Memory American Memory is a gateway to the primary source materials of the Library of Congress relating to the history and culture of the United States. .
• The CIA's World Factbook This site is a great source of reference information because it has some of the most up to date information about just about everything - essentially a very advanced almanac and then some.
• Core Documents of US Democracy This site offers direct online access to the basic Federal Government documents.
• The Discovery Channel Online Provides access to information about and supplementing Discovery Channel Programs and features Discovery School .
• Famous Trials from the UMKC School of Law Provides detailed information and often court transcripts from historically significant court cases in Western History.
• The History Channel The History Channel site pulls together a plethora of information about History Channel Programming and other supplemental and educational historical information.
• History Matters: The American Social History Project Designed for high school and college teachers of US History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers some first-person primary documents and strategies for the study of history.
• The History Net "Where history lives on the net," this site has a plethora of history links, with an emphasis on what history is in the news and on TV, and many of which focus on military history.
• History Now A quarterly journal with articles and documents about a wide variety of historical times and places in American History.
• The History Place Another clearinghouse for history links aimed at students and teachers of history, this time primarily centered around 20th century American History.
• History/Politics Out Loud HPOL is a searchable multimedia collection of invaluable audio materials capturing significant political and historical events and personalities of the twentieth century. The materials range from formal addresses delivered in public settings to private telephone conversations conducted from the innermost recesses of the White House.
• Landmark Supreme Court Cases Designed for teachers, though potentially useful for others this site provides a wide range of resources about supreme court cases.
• LIFE Magazine Homepage Offers access to many of LIFE Magazine's most famous photographs from the 1930s to the 1990s.
• Making of America The Making of America is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
• The National Park Service: History and Culture This site allows for the exploration of America's cultural resources - buildings, landscapes, archeological sites, ethnographic resources, objects and documents, structures and districts, providing information about people from the past and establish important connections to the present.
• Natural Register of Historical Places Brings properties in the National Register of Historic Places to life.
• PBS Online This comprehensive site offers companion Web sites for PBS television programs and specials, original Web content and real-time learning adventures.
• PortalWisconsin.org Portalwisconsin.org is a web site created to promote culture, arts, humanities and history in Wisconsin.
• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - Historical Map Collection has over 15,800 maps online and focuses on North and South American maps.
• The Smithsonian The Smithsonian's site provides access to the abundant historical, scientific and cultural information of the Smithsonian itself, but also a plethora of other associated American Museums.
• State Historical Society of Wisconsin This site puts many of the Historical Societies resources at our fingertips.
• United States Historical Census Data Browser This site allows you to browse the American census data for each decade.

 

This page last updated July 27, 2010